The following is a reprint from my blog, American Agenda

During Obama's sales campaign for the ever-popular (cough) stimulus package, he told us over and over ad nauseum that we needed seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars so that teachers and police officers throughout the country could keep their jobs. He said it at least five times. Remember that - part of the central purpose for the economic stimulus was for teachers and police officers.

To date, over half of that money remains unspent. Something in the neighborhood of $421 billion dollars of the stimulus money is still sitting in government coffers waiting to go stimulate something. If you step into the treasury, you can hear the money drumming its fingers on the table ... impatiently waiting for some bureaucrat to give it a push out into the economy. That was FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

In a completely unrelated story (roll of the eyes), Nancy Pelosi,  Democratic leader in the House of Representatives is calling congress back from their summer break. The reason - to have them vote for $26 billion dollars which she says is needed so that teachers and police officers can keep their jobs.

Now, maybe my logic circuits are getting old, but it seems to me if you have $421 billion already set aside for that very purpose, you do not need to appropriate another $26 billion.

Okay ... I know that it does not sound like a lot of money to Bill Gates, but look at it this way. That amount of money, $26,000,000,000, is enough to pay the average guy (earning $40,000 a year) for the next 650,000 years! It could pay 6,500 of us for the next 100 years.

But not to worry, we do not need to add that to our already mountainous debt, because we already have $421 billion sitting around unspent and set aside for that very purpose, Ms. Pelosi.

So, what I want to know is this: Why is she asking for the $26 billion?

Contact your congressman and ask him to remind Ms. Pelosi that the money is already there waiting and we do not need any more.

421 - 26 = 395. . . I think it will work.